books by Ann Druyan (experience scientific ancestors)

books by Ann Druyan

books:

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

424 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1997

Be a Candle, Cast out Demons
With over 400 reviews already written for this book, I could not think of any new or clever commentary to add. So, I'll provide a small tidbit from the book to illustrate the research, content, and tone that Sagan offers the reader in abundance. "The chronicle of those who were consumed by fire [burned alive for witchcraft] in the single German city of Wurzburg in the single year 1598 ...

Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Intersteller Record

3 reviews
Carl Sagan, F D Drake, ...

Random House, 1978

Through the darkness...
With recently announced initiatives directing us to space exploration once again, with the space shuttle again in orbit, and with the recent announcement of a tenth planet discovered, it is worthwhile to look back at a piece of history in the first great era of planetary exploration, whose heyday is arguably the journeys of Voyager I and Voyager II, the last great interplanetary probes to make a ...

Comet

12 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Pocket Books, 1986

Ameteur and Armchair Astronomers will love this book
I would classify myself as the Armchair type - I don't own a telescope, and shamefully I do not know my constellations, but I have enjoyed many popular books on the subject. Having just finished reading this book I am sorely tempted to get a telescope or at least go out and find a local star party (where ameteur astronomers set up their equipment and gladly share viewing opportunities with ...

Billions & Billions [BILLIONS & BILLIONS]
Carl(Author) ; Druyan, Ann(Epilogue by) Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1998

A famous broken heart: A fantasy novel

4 reviews
Ann Druyan

Stonehill Pub. Co, 1977

A Jewel
This is a charming book full of wit and beauty. It's a story about fantasy and reality, about the power of words and of literary characters to bring insight and meaning to life, and about how we seem to be letting the richness and meaning slip away from the modern world. But it's not at all a "heavy" book; it's written as a light story with a lot of entertaining wordplay, about a woman named ...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Gifford Lectures on Natural ...

1 review
Carl Sagan

Penguin Books, 2007

Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan
As a long time "fan" of Carl Sagan I'd like to thank Ann Druyan for editing and making Dr. Sagan's 1985 Gifford Lectures available in book form. It made fascinating reading and I read nothing else for two days until I had read it from cover to cover. Highly recommended. And my thanks to Amazon for shipping it so quickly. Andrew Swanson seswan2@comcast.net

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

59 reviews
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Ballantine Books, 1993

A leisurely but wonderfully informative read
Written in the early 1990s by American scientist Carl Sagan and author Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is in some degree a printed update of his popular television series "Cosmos" produced some 10 years earlier. It would be easy to pass off both the series and the book as out-dated, but in fact they are both current and historic because of their prescience and because the science that ...

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

84 reviews
Carl Sagan

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Carl Sagan dazzles me again
Carl Sagan's Varieities of Scietific experience dazzles me once again with his nack for writing and explaining things so well. He has a well formulated idea of G-d that seems irrefutable. He also brings up many interesting thoughts on the nature of religion and the human condition. Overall, another fantastic book by Sagan.